Effectively Wild Episode 2371: Why No No-Nos?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether Trent Grisham’s 30-homer season is more or less surprising than Juan Soto’s almost-30-steal season, Colson Montgomery’s dinger spree, why there hasn’t been a no-hitter this season, and the exciting-but-boring AL/NL West races. Then (26:47) they bring on top-tier Patreon supporter Ashton Moss to banter about his baseball […]

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0:00.0	Effectively wild
0:03.4	It's the only show I did
0:06.9	hosted by Ben Lindberg
0:10.6	and Meg Riley
0:13.6	I want to hear about show
0:17.6	Hey O Toney
0:18.8	Or Mike Trout with three Hello and welcome to episode of Hello and welcome to episode 2371 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from fan graphsraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:38.8	I'm Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs.
0:42.5	Hello, Meg.
0:43.4	Hello.
0:44.3	We will be joined in a short while by a Mike Trout tier Patreon supporter.
0:49.5	Haven't had one on for a few months, I think.
0:52.2	So we will have a guest soon. But before we do, just a quick
0:56.7	bit of intro banter. I was trying to decide which has shocked me more. Juan Soto being on the
1:04.7	verge of 30 stolen bases, which we talked about the other day, or Trent Grisham, who was involved in a trade involving Juan Soto, having 30 home runs.
1:17.1	30.
1:17.6	He's not even on the verge.
1:19.1	He has hit his 30th home run.
1:21.7	They're in hand.
1:22.8	Yeah, this is...
1:23.6	Out of hand, is the case maybe.
1:25.1	Yeah, this has completely changed my conception of both of these players.
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